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Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German:; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Jan 4, 2024 · The Zone of Interest envisions the everyday lives of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family, rarely venturing beyond their villa’s borders to acknowledge the atrocities unfolding ...
May 24, 2024 · Rudolf Hoss, German soldier and Nazi official who served as commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex (1940–45) during a period when as many as 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 inmates perished there.
On 16 April 1947, Rudolf Höss was hanged in the courtyard next to the former crematorium of Auschwitz. Höss was the Commander of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. In this role, he was responsible for the deaths of nearly one million Jews and other prisoners in the camp.
3 days ago · Rudolf Höss, who was responsible for the implementation of Auschwitz’s gas chambers, was executed for his war crimes in 1947 at the camp, at the request of surviving prisoners. The documentary features Hans-Jurgen Höss, son and Rudolf Höss’ grandson, Kai — a pastor at a church in Stuttgart that serves the U.S. military — as he pushes ...
May 30, 2024 · One of those people was Rudolf Höss, an SS officer who was tasked with devising a method to efficiently kill Jews. ... But Höss’s son Hans-Jurgen Höss, now 87, never knew the commandant as a ...
At 10 am on Wednesday April 16, 1947, the former commandant of Auschwitz extermination camp, SS Oberstürm bannführer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolph Hoess, briskly walked under armed escort toward the small wooden gallows specifically built for him inside the camp grounds.
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